Survival Vacancy

Survival Vacancy is a fascinating double-layered game, where you playing a little engineer - city builder, at the same time as you're protect survivors and buildings. Gameplay: https://youtu.be/rgkEU9Pbo1c The game reminds Factorio, SimCity, industrialized Minecraft and blends city building, strategy and tower defense. You will be mining resources, building infrastructure, automating production and researching technologies. You start off with little excavator, slowly progress to full automation, building top-down systems and the economy that will supply the material for your structures. This is exciting. Building in a confined space is like a puzzle game, in my opinion. You have to think about optimization and keep everything in sync.

I played the Demo first for around 4 hours, to see if I would like it. And I have to say I love this game, it does have a mild learning curve to start out with, but give it an hour and you will be up and running making your base. You start off with just your Manual Maker where you must make things yourself and standing near it, once you have made several machines for your base you can get those to automate to make things for you using Carrier rails to transfer ores, smelted bars etc too and from areas. You need to get your base up and running and then make Pods for survivors, but be warned once you get survivors you will be visited my aliens / creatures ho will destroy power supplies on the surface ( I fell into that trap and lost all power to my base ) so make Turrets and Ammo before making Pods. All in all a fantastic game with huge potential, looking forward for the upcoming updates. Just look past the learning curve at the start and you love this game.

This game looks promising, but at least in its current state, it is disappointing. Even for an early access game, it's still to rough with too many bugs. The user interface is severely lacking, the crafting system is difficult to use, and some game mechanics seem like they need to be more thought out. While the graphics are clearly meant to be cartoony and fun, they just feel like something out of a mid-90s game like Worms. I might check the game out again in a few updates. Maybe it will be much improved!

This game does not appear to have a single original idea. Its a direct rip off of Oxygen Not Included and Factorio. Looks like their last game was also a rip off of Factorio. A cash grab is all this game is going to be.

- you cannot cross/intersect two rails - this gives sever limitations. See the screenshot of the developer base on the store page. The game is designed to have zero long-term functional base, with resources being delivered to a centralized processing factory. You will keep building small food factories for every shelter/house - see the screenshot. Same with other type of production. Basically, you can build only like this. No "usual" organization and "ingress bus" for a centralized factory - like Factorio. - handling/UI is bad. After so long in development, you cannot neither reorganize nor sort your inventory. :-( Every time it takes a long time to find you items :-( Obviously, something went wrong in the game design and execution. Sorry to say. :-(

Allthough in early access, allready a very interesting challenge. 2D automation.... Factorio meets Terraria or ONI?... Clearly a known concept by now, automation, in a totally new jacket... and looks great... Still for free on Itch.io to try, deep enough to get a good grasp of the game. With an active dev in the games Discord, yes 'a' dev, meaning one... ;-) the future feels good for this little gem. Give it a try and I hope you like it like I do.

Still too glitchy, electrical and railways break randomly and you spend half the game deleting and replacing them for no reason. Sounds game concept but shouldn't be being sold at the stage it's at.

Needs a quicktool bar. Opening and closing inventory windows repeatedly is not fun, and is tediously fatiguing. Please prioritise a quality of life update!

I will be coming back to check it out in a year or so, but right now the game is just really incomplete and unfun. The control scheme and tutorial are in desperate need of polish and attention. The list of promised features is meh, and won't make much of a difference unless we happen to get a better control scheme, more configuration, and clearer documentation.

A neat little game where you have to build transport lines to manufacture resources into items to keep a growing population of survivors alive. If you enjoy building and optimizing extraction and manufacturing lines while having threats to fend off, this is up your sleeve :)